BiennialSeptember 26, 2022
Lyon Biennale Focuses on Fragility
The 16th Lyon Biennale: Manifesto of Fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future. Open to the public from September 14 to December 31, 2022, the Biennale focused on fragility as one of few universally felt truths in our divided world.
Conceived as a collective statement authored through word, image, sound and movement by 200 artists and creatives, it calls on a community of resilient voices to draft a manifesto for a world that is blamelessly fragile. The Biennale is structured around three distinct yet inter-connected layers, where fragility and resistance are explored through the lens of the individual, the city, and the world respectively.
The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet, on view on the 3rd floor at the macLYON, is a fictionalized retelling of the obscure life of Louise Brunet. Beirut and the Golden Sixties, on view on the 1st and 2nd floors at the macLYON, highlights collisions between art and political ideologies during a romanticized era of global influence in Beirut and A world of endless promise, on view here and at eleven other locations across the city of Lyon representing Lyon’s diverse cultural and architectural history, embodies various faces of fragility through contemporary and historical artworks.
The curators, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, are Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and Founders of the multidisciplinary, curatorial platform artReoriented, which they launched in New York and Munich in 2009.
Among the 200 artists invited to the Biennial are the Latin American artists: Leyla Cárdenas (Colombia), José Dávila (México), Daniel de Paula (Brazil), Pedro Gómez-Egaña (Colombia), Jr. Hudinilson (Brazil), Néstor Jiménez (México), Daniel Otero Torres (Colombia) and Valeska Soares (Brazil).
For more information visit: https://www.labiennaledelyon.com/en
Conceived as a collective statement authored through word, image, sound and movement by 200 artists and creatives, it calls on a community of resilient voices to draft a manifesto for a world that is blamelessly fragile. The Biennale is structured around three distinct yet inter-connected layers, where fragility and resistance are explored through the lens of the individual, the city, and the world respectively.
The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet, on view on the 3rd floor at the macLYON, is a fictionalized retelling of the obscure life of Louise Brunet. Beirut and the Golden Sixties, on view on the 1st and 2nd floors at the macLYON, highlights collisions between art and political ideologies during a romanticized era of global influence in Beirut and A world of endless promise, on view here and at eleven other locations across the city of Lyon representing Lyon’s diverse cultural and architectural history, embodies various faces of fragility through contemporary and historical artworks.
The curators, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, are Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and Founders of the multidisciplinary, curatorial platform artReoriented, which they launched in New York and Munich in 2009.
Among the 200 artists invited to the Biennial are the Latin American artists: Leyla Cárdenas (Colombia), José Dávila (México), Daniel de Paula (Brazil), Pedro Gómez-Egaña (Colombia), Jr. Hudinilson (Brazil), Néstor Jiménez (México), Daniel Otero Torres (Colombia) and Valeska Soares (Brazil).
For more information visit: https://www.labiennaledelyon.com/en
